Friday, June 27, 2014

“I should weary the reader, were I to describe, step by step, the
progress of the work, and the discoveries gradually made in various part of the
great mound.The labours of one day
resembled those of the preceding; but it would be difficult to convey to others
an idea of the excitement which was produced by the constant discovery of
objects of the highest interest.”-
Austen Henry Layard, Nineveh and Its Remains

While Layard resumed his Assyrian excavations, and Rawlinson continued to
decipher Akkadian, both efforts began to shed light on the even older
civilization of ancient Sumer.